Refrigerating bottle-safe



(No Model.)

P. 'KEABINS.

REFRIGERATING BOTTLE SAFE.

Patented May 30,1882.

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Kiwuh WITNESSEQ UNr'ra. STATES PATENT @rmcno PATRICK KEARINS, OF SHAMOKIN, PENNSYLVANIA.

REFRIGERATING BOTTLE-SAFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,765,, dated May 30, 1882.

Application filed March 11, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PATRICK KEARINS, of Shamokin, in the county of Northumberland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented eer' tain new and useful Improvements in Refrigeratin g Bottle-Safes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the safe with a portion broken away and with the lid or cover open. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, showing the manner of its mounting or attachment to a bar or counter; and Fig 3 is a horizontal sectional view of the safe.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Myinvention contemplates an improved construction of safes adapted to hold bottles, and also a quantityof ice for cooling their contents; and it consists in the detailed construction and mounting of the safe, as hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings,Ais the shell or outer casing of the safe, which is preferably made of zinc or galvanized sheet-iron, and provided with a closely-fitting flanged cover, B, hinged to the casing A at a a.

O is an ice-chamber adapted to hold broken ice, or a freezing mixture of salt and ice; and D D are partitions which extend from the chamber 0 to the inner walls of the casing, as shown clearly in the drawings. These partitions, however, do not reach to the bottom of easing A, but divide only the upper part of the latter into compartments 1) b, in which the bottles are placed. A faucet, c, is inserted through the back wall, A, of the outer shell or easing into the ice-chamber O for drawing off the ice-water when required.

The casin g A has top and bottom brace-bars, E and E, which are made with eye-plates c and 6, through which an iron rod, F, is inserted. The latter has a shoulder or collar, f, upon which the lower eye-plate, e, rest-s, and it also has a cross-head .or base-plate, g, at its lower end, by which it is screwed to the floor. The

collarfis adjustable upon the rod-4'. 0., it may be moved up or down and fastened in any given position by means of a set-screw,f. Rod F is fastened to the floor back of the bar or counter G, the collarf being so adjusted that the safe or casing resting upon it may be swung in under the top of the counter, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2. The top of the rod is fastened in the projecting ledge of the counter, so that it will be held rigidly in its position, the projecting part of the rod (if there is any) being filed ofieven with the top of the counter. A padlock or any other suitable lock may be employed for locking the cover down upon the casing.

When not in use the safe is swung upon its red F in under the counter, where it is out of the way as well as free from observation. If desired, the casing A A may be made with double walls and bottom, and the space between filled with rice-hulls, sawdust, or any other material that is a poor conductor of heat to prevent the too quick melting of the ice.

I am aware that various devices of the same class and serving the same purpose have been made before; and I do not, therefore, claim broadly a swinging or pivoted refrigerator adapted to be placed under a counter; but by hanging the refrigerator-box or bottle-safe upon the vertical rod F, with its adjustable collarf, no further bearings are necessary, and no alterations in the counter of any kind need to be made beyond boring a hole to receive the upper end of the supporting-rod F. Hence W hat I claim as my improvment, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, 1s-

The combination of the refrigerator or hot tle-sal'e A B, constructed substantially as described, and having the top and bottom bracebars, E and provided respectively with eye-plates c and c, and vertical supporting-rod F, having the shoe G, and provided with the adjustable collar f, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foreging as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PATRICK KEARINSA Witnesses:

LoUIs BAGGER,

J NO. W. MADIGAN. 

